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* On Sun May-15-2005 at 05:18:06 PM -0400, Mike Frysinger said: |
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> my proposal is to implement a new utility (called 'erescue' for lack of a |
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> better name) that is written in C and designed to be statically linked ... |
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> then next time you break a core system package which cannot be recovered by |
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> simply running `emerge` a few times, you run `erescue <broken package>` |
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Everyone who is saying that Portage can already sort of handle this |
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seems to be missing one important point. If Python is broken then emerge |
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won't work. The proposed erescue would still work in that case. |
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Sami Samhuri |
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